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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: What if I Talk About Race Wrong? - Chapter 6: Is Police Brutality Really About Race?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a quality Oluo attributes to the main people racism was created to benefit?
(a) White.
(b) Rich.
(c) Male.
(d) Educated.

2. Charles Mudude was an editor at which Seattle newspaper?
(a) The Seattle Times.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) Seattle Weekly.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

3. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?
(a) Instagram.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Twitter.
(d) YouTube.

4. Oluo states that until what level of her school career, she was always the only black student in her class?
(a) College.
(b) Junior high.
(c) Middle school.
(d) High school.

5. Which hip-hop artist's booking of a concert near Oluo's place of residence made her angry?
(a) R Kelly.
(b) DJ Jazzy Jeff.
(c) Lil Wayne.
(d) Jay-Z.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oluo describe the identities of the men who approached Oluo's picnicking group in the Seattle park?

2. Oluo asserts that racism was used to justify the genocide of which people?

3. How does Oluo describe her mother's identity?

4. Ijeoma Oluo states in the preface of So You Want to Talk About Racism that she is writing the preface how many years after the first edition of the book was published?

5. In what state were Oluo and her younger brother born?

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